Top 344 Chief Quotes

And now for Return to Flight, I’m chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

Obama really is a warrior in chief. He’s not afraid to get the job done.

No commander in chief would ever say, ‘I’m not going to listen to the guys on the ground.’

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in ’97.

Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

I would love to get Chief Justice John Roberts for an interview. I think that would be fascinating, I think that Supreme Court nominees should do more interviews.

In 2014, Modi’s name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

I am the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Marathon Agency, a new venture with my business partner Steve Carless. It’s a management, branding, marketing, and business strategy. I’m in charge of marketing and branding clients like Nick Cannon, Nicki Minaj, and more.

ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn’t too bad in a city with such a chief executive.

Wall Street is not the right career for everyone or for every woman. That is clear. But it can’t be wrong for every woman. A big job in a trading house can’t only be the head of Human Resources or chief operating officer in charge of overhead.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

We love professional wrestling. It started with High Chief Peter Maivia and then Afa and Sika. The teachings that they have. The respect for the business. You protect the business. You go out there and be the best that you can.

Mike Marshman is a quality choice to fill the role of Portland Police Chief.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

A chief of staff has to reflect the president’s governing style.

There are plenty of odd couple Congressmen who have roomed together on Capitol Hill, but I have never heard of a chief of staff who rooms with his boss. It is beyond unusual.

There is a system in BJP as to who would be projected as a chief ministerial candidate or a prime ministerial candidate. The proper forum to take decision is only central parliamentary board.

Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: ‘Hey, Chief!’ Even when I go to work now, people call me ‘Chief.’

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

The text, ‘Is God a White Racist’, By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.

Life is very good. I’m the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

I am not the governor, administrator or chief minister, who can issue instructions to bring about changes. I can only advise.

For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.

Modi has been the Gujarat chief minister for more than a decade, but there is a vast difference between controlling a state and leading a nation.

One of my chief criticisms of U.S. international policy is that Congress has largely abdicated its foreign policy-making responsibilities to the executive branch.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I’ve always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.